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either from imported grape
must or from local flowers,
fruits, and other produce –
birch sap, honey, and even
potatoes, onions, and
carrots. In Homer, Bear Creek
Winery produces rhubarb,
blueberry, and raspberry
wines. Anchorage’s Denali
Winery imports grapes to
produce palatable vintages.
Native Foods
Akutaq “Eskimo ice cream” is
Sampling beer at the Alaskan Brewing Company (see p144) in Juneau made by the Inuit from seal oil,
whipped berries, and snow.
Caribou, moose, black-tailed
Vegetables and Fruits deer Hunted by Alaska Natives
in gardens and canned, made
Alaska’s main agricultural into jams and jellies, or baked in Southeast, Interior, and Arctic
area, the Matanuska Valley, into delicious pies. Alaska, wild game meat is dried,
produces a wide range of frozen, or eaten in any meat-
cold-climate vegetables such Beer and Wine based recipe.
as carrots, squash, zucchini Dried fish Fish are preserved
(courgettes), potatoes, The state has seen a growth by drying them on large racks.
kohlrabi, rutabagas (swedes), of microbreweries in the larger Smoked fish Fish are smoked
cauliflower, broccoli, and towns, where many pubs in a wood-fired smoker, usually
turnips. These are usually and brewhouses will offer a using alder wood, which adds
used in stews, baked into selection of craft ales. Alaska’s a fine flavor.
casseroles, or eaten as stand- largest fully fledged brewery is Whale This beef-like meat is
alone dishes after being the Alaskan Brewing Company a favored part of the local diet.
baked, boiled, or mashed. The in Juneau. Its range of award- Inupiat villages are allowed to
climate of Anchorage, the winning beers include stout, harvest a quota of whales.
Kenai Peninsula, and the Mat- amber, pale ale, and both Muktuk Whale blubber, the fatty
Su is also suitable for growing summer and winter ales, which layer beneath the outer skin, is
orchard fruits such as apples are available all over Alaska, as chewed raw or soft ened by
and cherries, although not in well as in the western states. boiling or pickling.
commercial quantities. Alaska’s climate is too Berries Historically, berries such
Rhubarb and a wide variety cold for growing wine grapes, as salmonberries, elder berries,
of berries grow well through but that does not stop a few and blueberries were the main
much of the southern half of enterprising winemakers source of sugar in the Native diet.
the state. Most are cultivated produc ing refreshing wines,

Crab legs and claws are Reindeer sausage pizza is a Wild blueberry pies are made
steamed or boiled and served thick crust pizza spread with by baking berries with sugar,
with a variety of sauces. Diners marinara sauce and cheese, cornstarch, and lemon juice in
need a crab-cracker to extract topped with reindeer sausage, a pie shell. They are served
the meat from the shell. roasted peppers, and onions. with whipped cream.

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